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Are there passive smoking risks from e-cigarettes?
... are racing to find out how they affect health, not just of users but for those around them. Although e-cigarettes - ... devices that deliver nicotine and flavourings to users - don't contain tobacco, their emissions do contain ... don't even contain tobacco,' he said. 'But because most users use charges containing nicotine they do produce ...
Facebook filter-bubbles distort opinions
... Science , analysed data from 10 million US-based Facebook users who have also declared their ideological opinions. The ... seven million links to news stories shared by these users and divided them into softer- or harder-hitting items. About 13% were in the latter category, and how users shared and responded to these news-feed items was ...
Machine learning to unlock history
... their historical documents. The online platform allows users to train a computer handwriting recognition model to ... written by hand in a variety of European languages. Users train a model with 50 to 100 pages of existing ... handwriting to what the model has seen before. So far users have trained more than 7,700 individual models says Dr ...
Letting the Khat out of the bag
... were probably known before those of coffee. Khat users take several fresh leaves and crush them in the mouth, ... from Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen are the principal users. What are the active chemicals in khat? Two active ... increased heart rate, headache, teeth grinding, and some users have required hospitalisation with symptoms including ...
Cannabis irreversibly alters brain wiring
... to a feel-good chemical called dopamine, and leaving users at risk of becoming depressed and demotivated. Hannah ... involved in motivation. Now, we found within cannabis users that there was a correlation so, a relationship between ... the brain? Michael - In our study, all of the cannabis users were quite heavy cannabis users. So, most cannabis in ...
People's data hacked from their pet apps
... with these GPS devices because they're tracking the users location. If they're alongside their pet, they can for ... security and privacy needs of other devices where human users are going to be in mind in the design process. So as we ... found in our study, there were vulnerable apps showing the users login details, but we also found that users were taking ...
Does cannabis really affect motivation?
... Neuropsychopharmacology, comparing how frequent cannabis users fare against non users in a series of tasks designed to probe this. Martine - ... show a stronger effect, but this is still the minority of users and obviously most people who have depression, ...
Cannabis rewires the brain
... to a feel-good chemical called dopamine, and leaving users at risk of becoming depressed and demotivated and at ... in motivation. Now, we found within the cannabis users that there was a correlation so a relationship between ... the brain? Michael - In our study, all of the cannabis users were quite heavy cannabis users. So, most cannabis in ...
Inclusive design
... One of the problems in conventional design today, is that users are often generalised and stereotyped, and that means ... in any website. And what UI Options does, is it gives users a way to change the user interface in various forms to ... the software and thus able to do less in terms of giving users the power to change and adapt their software. Katie - ...
Should social media get a trustworthy button?
... platforms is that they’re engineered only to engage users and promote information exchange; they don't reward users for the accuracy or reliability of what they share. So ... by slightly altering the engagement options offered to users. So we're not taking away the like and the dislike ...
Is social media addictive?
... sites, and these are “virtual communities where users can create individual public profiles, interact with ... can become problematic for a small number of excessive users. For example, our research (Donnelly & Kuss, 2016) ... using Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter. Instagram allows users to follow celebrities and public figures who lead more ...
Is our data safe on social media?
... is currently under fire for sharing up to 87 million users’ data with Cambridge Analytica, which has opened a ... out of that as well. That money is not coming from us as users, it’s coming from advertisers, so the advertisers are ... huge because apparently Facebook’s got over 2 million users and a 100 billion ‘clicks’ per year. It’s only ...
How does Bitcoin work?
... hinge on two principles: firstly, it would guarantee its users' anonymity - transactions were not to be traceable to a ... bitcoins can be freely sent and received between bitcoin users. The process of transferring bitcoins between users is called a 'transaction'. The computational processes ...
Why are tranquilisers addictive?
... effects, which include reducing anxiety and helping users to sleep, by sensitising the brain to one of its main ... pathways as morphine and other opioids, explaining why users can get hooked. By studying how the drugs affect nerve ... reinforces the drug-taking behaviour and explains why users get hooked. But there is some good news. These ...
The positive power of the Internet
... a lot of people's time for little benefit. So, instead of users being asked to enter a random word, he realised that ... it to us and then we give the article in English to our users. And then the ones that are learning English, in order ... of thousands of articles a day. Chris - What do the end-users say of the experience? Do they find it is helping ...
The web sees evolution on the fly
... page so it slowly evolved to suit the preferences of the users. According to Hockenberry the early-generation pages, ... of the web. Pages could be better tailored to disabled users, for example, who often have different and highly ... Amazon, trying to anticipate the needs and preferences of users, and then developing and road-testing something ...
Making social media sources more trustworthy
... engage and promote information exchange, they don't reward users for the veracity of what they share. So, as she ... Smith, she's come up with a way to recognise and reward users for the trustworthiness of what they share... Laura - ... by slightly altering the engagement options offered to users. So we're not taking away the like and the dislike ...
Diamond News Update
... Meera – Now as well as research though, as usual the Users of Diamond are actually quite important as well as the beamlines and there have been first users on one of the more recent beamlines? Sarah – Yes, so ... Imaging and Coherence beamline. It’s welcomed first users at the end of last year. Researchers from the ...
Cannabis Use Is Bad in the Long Term
Cannabis users face long-term irreversible damage to their memories, ... certain time after they had been shown them. The cannabis users remembered an average of 2.5 fewer words than non-users. But is the damage permanent? Unfortunately, it looks ...
Another Major Breach in Internet Security
... anyone to gain private information about its millions of users. Using the Morpheus file-sharing program, people can swap music, videos or movies with other users of the software. But, security experts have found a way to gain access to the computer hard drives of users of Morpheus, which has taken over from Napster as the ...
Look back at 2010
... take home message is that the light delivered out to the Users is going to be brighter and more flexible. Meera - You mention that Diamond's priority is always the Users that come in and use the Facility for their Research ... reached the milestone of 1000 publications produced from Users and from people who work at Diamond. And that's 1000 ...
Buying a pint with bitcoins
... been used by gamers to buy extra features online. But now users can spend their savings on real life pints as in the ... piece of computer code. As well as exchanging bitcoins, users can 'mine' for new currency with their computers. ... 'signed' by a private code that is associated with the users' bitcoin wallet - proving it came from the correct ...
Diamond News Update - Fighting antibiotic resistance
... such as Aerospace and engineering components and the first users were actually from Rolls Royce. They were looking at a ... down to small scale, the nano-scale in fact, you've had users on another Beamline as well? Sarah - Yes, so we've now ... in operation. Towards the end of last year we had first users on the Beamline for Advanced Dichroism Experiments, we ...
How soundscapes and vibrations are helping blind people see the world
... the size of a mobile phone, Eyesynth aims to overcome users’ resistance to ungainly or unattractive medical ... build up an audio image. By learning the audio language, users can make their way around obstacles or identify and ... also provides benefits for people with poor hearing. Users learn Eyesynth's audio language in a familiar ...
Watch out for wi-fi
... access to the internet is incredibly convenient for users at home and at work. But is WiFi putting our security ... spread of infectious disease and show just how susceptible users of WiFi networks can be to the computer equivalent of ... through wireless networks. Firstly, the authors recommend users change their default passwords and make sure they pick ...